Thursday, June 21, 2012

Has
Obama failed to advance leftism in America?

By Julio
Severo

Roberto Unger, a
prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said that
“President Obama must be defeated in the coming election” because “he has
failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States,” according to a Daily Mail report.

Roberto Unger: Obama “failed” in the progressive cause

He also said
that, “despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats’ agenda is little different
to that of the Republicans”.

In this point,
he just confirmed my suspicion: the leftist agenda was advanced in different
degrees, by Democrats and Republicans, throughout the world through the US
government. (Of course, Ronald Reagan is a notable exception.)

Daily Mail
said that “Mr. Unger is a renowned politician in his native Brazil. He has
twice run for president of Brazil… Unger was one of the founding members of the
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party”.

With his
impressive credentials as a professor at Harvard Law since 1976, “he has also
advised on politics throughout Latin America.” Has his advice failed to help
advance the progressive cause in this region? In any case, Latin America is
becoming a Union of Latin American Socialist Republics.

He has taught
law with a progressive bias for more than 35 years, and has no one in America
noticed? Other prominent Brazilian Marxists, including Fernando Henrique
Cardoso, have also been professors in prominent American universities.

Harvard,
established in 1636, was named after Puritan minister John Harvard (1607–38),
who bequeathed to the school his books and half of his estate. Although never
formally affiliated with a church, Harvard primarily trained Protestant
ministers. Today, although never formally avowing Marxism, Harvard primarily
trains leftists…

If the original
intent of Harvard’s Pilgrim founders were implemented, Unger would have gotten
the boot. If Unger’s original intent were implemented, Obama would get the boot
for being a “weak” progressive. As for the Pilgrims, Unger would have expelled
them from Harvard and America because they were not progressive at all!

Mr. Unger’s most
famous student was Barack Obama, who attended Harvard Law School in 1988. He
studied jurisprudence and the art of “reinventing democracy.”

Obama has indeed
reinvented the de facto leftist democracy built up over for decades by
Democrats and Republicans, but this is not enough for Professor Unger, who is a
respected author having published dozens of books on economics, philosophy and
politics.

In his view,
Obama “has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.”
Apparently Unger expects his students to establish “democratic” governments in
the model of the Soviet Union!

In Unger’s
thinking, Stalin should no doubt have been defeated because he “failed” to
advance the communist cause in Russia, and Hitler “failed” to advance Nazi
ideology in Germany…

Unger reminds me
of Anglican Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, founder of the Progressive Evangelical
Movement, a NGO composed of leftist Protestant militants in Brazil. Cavalvanti
was a member of the socialist Workers’ Party, founded by former President Luiz
Inácio “Lula” da Silva. It is the ruling party in Brazil today. Cavalcanti left
this party because, in his view, it betrayed socialism!

I just wonder
why Cavalcanti failed to get a professor’s chair in Harvard to teach Obama and
others.

If America had
followed the intent of her Christian founders, she would never have had an
Unger in Harvard or an Obama in the White House. Harvard would keep training
ministers, not leftists. The White House would stop being a house of horrors
advocating internationally sodomy and abortion. And Reagans would be the rule,
not the exception.